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The African Development Bank has approved a US $100- million facility to finance Export Trading Group (ETG’s) soft commodity value chain operations in sub-Saharan Africa. This Soft Commodity Finance Facility …

Nigeria’s total trade in the first quarter of 2017 stood at N5.30 trillion, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The nation’s exports in the period under review stood …

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is to be applauded for placing a new G20 Partnership with Africa on the agenda of the upcoming G20 Summit. The conference she is hosting this …

As part of efforts aimed at addressing economic shocks arising from commodity price instability in Africa, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed a $150 million framework agreement with the …

Green and Gold Nuts, a South African-based company, is the world’s largest, single marketer of macadamia nuts. It exports to the US, Europe, Australia, China, and other countries. At the …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that “Africa is top priority for India’s foreign and economic policy and there isn’t a single African country which hasn’t been …

Arusha — Tanzania exports over a million metric tonne of beans to ten countries in Africa as well as India, making it the sole producer of the important legume to …

An abattoir owned by a subsidiary of Allana Group – Frigorifico Boran Foods Plc – will be opened in the coming month in Adami Tulu, 163kms from Addis Abeba. “We …

Khartoum — The Sudanese Agricultural Bank has signed four agreements with major American companies in the fields of axial irrigation, irrigation pumps, silos, solar energy, and water technology. “Sudan’s regional …

The African continent has the potential to feed itself and even have surplus food to export to other parts of the world. But instead, the continent imports $35 billion worth …